Saudi Arabia's foreign policy is primarily directed at two enemies: Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. The Saudis, writes foreign policy analyst Felix Imonti, are now planning to merge numerous fighting units in and outside of Syria into an Army of Mohammed. But where to base it? The obvious choice, says Imonti, is Egypt, now that the pro-Saudi Egyptian army has ousted the Muslim Brotherood. … [Read more...]

The Egyptian “street” has exchanged the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood for that of the military, putting them back to square one. What the Egyptians fail to see, writes the Canadian foreign policy expert Felix Imonti, is that the military is a major source of the poverty they are suffering from. The military controls the Egyptian economy and shuts out the majority of the population from participating in it. The generals get away with this because … [Read more...]